In March, Filipino American Museum (FAM) begins a year-long programming partnership with Ace Hotel New York, to present a roster of events and exhibits featuring artists, writers, and musicians. The collaboration is a first for both parties and will explore ideas of family, home, personal history and the blurriness that occurs in-between. Pulling Focus speaks to a commuity’s search for clarity, the tentative moments we find it, and the fleetingness of how long it can be held. From a group exhibit to an artist residency to the display windows of the hotel, FAM is excited to enlist friends old and new for a year of investigation, discovery and celebration.

About Distansya
This group exhibition presents new and recent work by four artists of Filipino descent living and working in the New York metropolitan area. These artworks, in particular, paradoxically embody and disembody, reveal and obscure, abstract and confound personal and cultural chronicles and images. Their works visually and figuratively may seem out-of-focus and esoteric, somewhat distant echoes of recorded histories or constructed identities. This is deliberate.

About FAM
Filipino American Museum is a platform for artists of Filipino descent and for work that captures and contextualizes the Filipino experience in America. FAM is a fluid space for the active investigation and expression of ideas at the intersection of contemporary art, culture and community.